Jean Chretien’s Scandal Continues Its Impact On The Federal Liberal Party
It was a betrayal that shook the Liberal party to its roots. After years of a culture of entitlement that grew at an unobstructed pace the Liberals had gone too far. In Jean Chretien’s hands the Liberal gang was caught in a $100,000,000 scandal whereby money was basically given to Liberal friends. Even the long-time Liberal supporters were in shock, felt betrayed, like they couldn’t trust the Liberals again.
The Liberal supporters that continued to vote for the Liberalts were compared to an abused wife. The idea is that if you’re abused once to such a fundamental degree (not to mention the ongoing abuse that had gone unspoken) then why would the Liberal gang stop?
Despite the remaining Liberal voters, the consensus was that the Liberals had to go through extremem bloodletting, a changing of the guards if you will before they would be fit to return to power. The problem is that bureaucrats can live a long time and by the time they die of old age (because there really is no other way to get rid of them), it could take decades.
So, why am I writing about this now?
In the Saturday Star (November 21, 2009) I read that Gills-Andre’ Gosselin (a key player in the federal sponsorship scandal) pleaded guilty last week to several charges related to fraud totally $655,276. The interesting thing is that a few months earlier he decided to file for bankruptcy. Hmmmm…that’s interesting isn’t it? If he’s bankrupt, then does that mean the court, even if it rules to have him return the money doesn’t have a way of collecting? He’s guilty but he’s not giving the money back is that the case?
He probably wouldn’t be pleading guilty if he had any chance of winning the case. Regardless, he’s sentenced to two years and one day. Which brings me to another thought - I wonder how much of that he’ll serve in jail?
Even though Saturday’s story was printed on page A16, let’s not forget the abuse that the Federal Liberals have inflicted on its long-time supporters and the fact that they have done nothing to rectify the matter or return the money to the taxpayers.
As I have said many times before, what matters more than the ideology of the party is the quality and intention of the Leader and his Team. Let us hope that the Federal Liberals are able to find a good Leader with a good Team who will clean up this mess soon.